Augusta Jane Evans Early years What were her early years like? She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, Did she stay in Columbus for her entire childhood? scarcely ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. Was she poor growing up? Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. Did things ever improve for her family? I don't know. Did she have any brothers or sisters? family of ten Was her childhood overall happy? she became a voracious reader at an early age. When did she begin writing? In 1850, at the age of fifteen, she wrote Inez: A Tale of the Alamo,
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Was Augusta Jane Evans writing a success?
She was born Augusta Jane Evans on May 8, 1835, in Columbus, Georgia, the eldest child of the family. The area of her birth was then known as Wynnton (now MidTown). Her mother was Sarah S. Howard and her father was Matthew R. Evans. She was a descendant on her mother's side from the Howards, one of the most cultured families of Georgia. As a young girl in 19th-century America, she received little in the way of a formal education. However, she became a voracious reader at an early age.  Her father suffered bankruptcy and lost the family's Sherwood Hall property in the 1840s. He moved his family of ten from Georgia for Alabama, and scarcely ten when they moved to San Antonio, Texas, in 1845. When the Mexican-American War had ended, and everything was in a disorganized condition, consequently there were no schools of any prominence. Had her mother not been cultivated and literary, Evans could never have obtained the education which fitted her for the work she later accomplished. During the Mexican war, San Antonio was the rendezvous for the United States troops sent to assist General Zachary Taylor, and the brilliant uniforms of the soldiery, the martial music, and the exciting events that accompany war, combined with the picturesque, enchanting scenery around San Antonio, furnished an excellent theme for Evans' first novel. In 1850, at the age of fifteen, she wrote Inez: A Tale of the Alamo, a sentimental, moralistic, anti-Catholic love story. It told the story of one orphan's spiritual journey from religious skepticism to devout faith. She presented the manuscript to her father as a Christmas gift in 1854. It was published anonymously in 1855.  However, life in a frontier border town like San Antonio proved dangerous, especially with the Mexican-American War. By 1849, Evans' parents moved the family to Mobile, Alabama. She wrote her next novel, Beulah, at age 18; it was published in 1859. Beulah began the theme of female education in her novels. It sold well, selling over 22,000 copies during its first year of publication, a staggering accomplishment. It established her as Alabama's first professional author. Her family used the proceeds from her literary success to purchase Georgia Cottage on Springhill Avenue. CANNOTANSWER
It was published anonymously in 1855.
Sixteen ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Success, whilst another was planned:

  was a 34-gun ship, previously the French ship Jules. She was captured in 1650, renamed HMS Old Success in 1660 and sold in 1662.
 HMS Success was a 24-gun ship launched in 1655 as . She was renamed HMS Success in 1660 and was wrecked in 1680.
  was a 6-gun fireship purchased in 1672 that foundered in 1673.
  was a store hulk purchased in 1692 and sunk as a breakwater in 1707.
  was a 10-gun sloop purchased in 1709 that the French captured in 1710 off Lisbon.
  was a 24-gun storeship launched in 1709, hulked in 1730, and sold in 1748. 
  was a 20-gun sixth rate launched in 1712, converted to a fireship in 1739, and sold in 1743.
  was a 14-gun sloop launched in 1736; her fate is unknown.
  was a 24-gun sixth rate launched in 1740 and broken up in 1779.
  was a 14-gun ketch launched in 1754. Her fate is unknown.
  was a 32-gun fifth rate launched in 1781 that the French captured in 1801 but that the British recaptured the same year. She became a convict ship in 1814 and was broken up in 1820.
  was a 3-gun gunvessel, previously in use as a barge. She was purchased in 1797 and sold in 1802.
  was a 28 gun sixth rate launched in 1825, and captained by James Stirling in his journey to Western Australia. She was used for harbour service from 1832 and was broken up 1849.
 HMS Success was to have been a wood screw sloop. She was ordered but not laid down and was cancelled in 1863.
  was a  launched in 1901 and wrecked in 1914.
 HMS Success was an  launched in 1918. She was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy in 1919 and was sold in 1937.
  was an S-class destroyer launched in 1943. She was transferred to the Royal Norwegian Navy later that year and renamed . She was broken up in 1959.

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 , two ships of the Royal Australian Navy.

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Royal Navy ship names HMAS Success was an Admiralty  destroyer of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Built for the Royal Navy during World War I, the ship was not completed until 1919, and spent less than eight months in British service before being transferred to the RAN at the start of 1920. The destroyer's career was uneventful, with almost all of it spent in Australian waters. Success was decommissioned in 1930, and was sold for ship breaking in 1937.

Design and construction

Success was built to the Admiralty design of the S-class destroyer, which was designed and built as part of the British emergency war programme. The destroyer had a displacement of 1,075 tons, a length of  overall and  between perpendiculars, and a beam of . The propulsion machinery consisted of three Yarrow boilers feeding Brown-Curtis turbines, which supplied  to the ship's two propeller shafts. Success had a maximum speed of , and a range of  at . The ship's company was made up of 6 officers and 93 sailors.

The destroyer's primary armament consisted of three QF 4-inch Mark IV guns. These were supplemented by a 2-pounder pom-pom, two 9.5-inch howitzer bomb throwers, five .303 inch machine guns (a mix of Lewis and Maxim guns), two twin 21-inch torpedo tube sets, two depth charge throwers, and two depth charge chutes.

Success was laid down by William Doxford and Sons Limited at their Sunderland shipyard in 1917. The destroyer was launched on 29 June 1918, and completed on 15 April 1919. The ship was briefly commissioned into the Royal Navy in April 1919, but was quickly marked for transfer to the RAN, along with four sister ships. Success was commissioned into the RAN on 27 January 1920.

Operational history

Success and three of her sister ships sailed for Australia on 20 February, visiting ports in the Mediterranean, India, Singapore, and the Netherlands East Indies before reaching Sydney on 29 April. Success operated in Australian waters until 6 October 1921, when she was placed in reserve. The destroyer was reactivated on 1 December 1925. In late May 1926, Success visited Port Moresby.

Decommissioning and fate
Success paid off on 21 May 1930. She was sold to Penguins Limited for ship breaking in 1937.

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S-class destroyers (1917) of the Royal Australian Navy
Ships built on the River Wear
1918 ships HMS Success was an  28-gun sixth-rate wooden sailing ship notable for exploring Western Australia and the Swan River in 1827 as well as being one of the first ships to arrive at the fledgling Swan River Colony two years later, at which time she ran aground off Carnac Island.

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Her keel was laid at Pembroke Dock in August 1823 and she was launched on 31 August 1825.  She was  and , and was a sixth-rate ship with 28 guns, including twenty 32-pounders.

She was sent by the Royal Navy on a mission to New South Wales and Melville Island.  She made an expedition to the Swan River in 1827, arriving there in early March.  Captain James Stirling was in command.  There is a record of the expedition, An account of the expedition of H.M.S. 'Success', Captain James Stirling, RN., from Sydney, to the Swan River, in 1827 by Augustus Gilbert.  Another account The visit of Charles Fraser (the colonial botanist of New South Wales) : to the Swan River in 1827, with his opinion on the suitableness of the district for a settlement was published in 1832.

On 3 December 1829 Success ran aground on Shag Rock, Carnac Island.  In April Success was taken to Careening Bay on Garden Island for heaving down to  and repaired.

In February 1833 Success was fitted out as a receiving ship and from 1833 to 1849 was engaged in harbour service in Portsmouth.  She was broken up in 1849.

Success Hill, Success Bank, the suburb of Success and a number of other features in Western Australia are named after the ship.

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Atholl-class corvettes
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Ships built in Pembroke Dock
Maritime incidents in December 1829